What are the important events that happened on March 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 17: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 17 is the 77th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 289 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 4, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,176 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontaheptagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,104 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 17 Historical Events
- 1337 –Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
- 1861 –The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
- 1891 –SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
- 1939 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
- 1945 –The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
- 1959 –Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
- 1979 –The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- 1988 –A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- 1992 –Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
- 2003 –Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Who were born on March 17?
- 1804 –Jim Bridger, American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
- 1864 –Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930)
- 1911 –Vello Kaaristo, Estonian cross-country skier (d. 1965)
- 1930 –James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
- 1940 –Mark White, American politician
- 1944 –John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter
- 1953 –Chuck Muncie, American football running back
- 1964 –Lee Dixon, English footballer
- 1973 –Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician
- 1987 –Ryan Parent, Canadian hockey player
Who died on March 17?
- 1649 –Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
- 1715 –Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
- 1926 –Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
- 1937 –Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
- 1956 –Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
- 1957 –Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
- 1974 –Louis Kahn, American architect
- 1993 –Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
- 2005 –George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
- 2010 –Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
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